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Men-At-Arms #447: The Czech Legion 1914-20 by David Bullock Publisher Comments The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts in World War I. Since only the defeat of Austro-Hungary and Germany offered any hope of Czech... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman Review “EXCELLENT . . . [The Guns of August] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues.” The Wall Street Journal... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone Publisher Comments In 1914, a new kind of war came about, bringing with it a new kind of world. World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs. The scale of devastation was... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War by James Carl Nelson Publisher Comments Haunted by an ancestor's tale of near death on a distant battlefield, James Carl Nelson set out in pursuit of the scraps of memory of his grandfather's small infantry unit. Years of travel across the world led to the retrieval of unpublished personal... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dreadnought : Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (91 Edition) by Robert K. Massie Publisher Comments "A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wings Over the Desert: In Action with an RFC Pilot in Palestine 1916-18 by Desmond Seward Publisher Comments Few people know of the battle over the Sinai Desert between the Royal Flying Corps and German airmen, part of Britain’s campaign against Turkey in the First World War. Although a smaller conflict than the Western Front, in some ways it was more... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Truce by Jim Murphy Synopsis On July 29th 1914, the worlds peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south. What followed was like a row of falling dominoes as one European country after another rushed into war.... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Hardcover
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Gallipoli, 1915: Frontal Assult on Turkey (91 Edition) by Haythornthwait Publisher Comments The Gallipoli expedition of 1915, the brainchild of Winston Churchill, was designed to knock the Turkish Empire out of the First World War and open a supply route to Russia. The campaign is characterised by the military incompetence of the higher... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pity of War : Explaining World War 1 (99 Edition) by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on naïve assumptions of German aims&... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 by Lisa Budreau Publisher Comments The United States lost thousands of troops during World War I, and the government gave next-of-kin a choice about what to do with their fallen loved ones: ship them home for burial or leave them permanently in Europe, in makeshift graves that would be... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War by Andrew Riddoch Publisher Comments The full story of the 17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, the ‘Footballers’ Battalion’, based on extensive original research, the authors draw on many previously unpublished letters, personal accounts and photographs to paint a vivid... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War : an International Security Reader (Rev 91 Edition) by Steven E. Miller Publisher Comments This revised and expanded edition includes nine essays from the journal 'International Security' that analyze the outbreak of the First World War. They consider how offensive military strategies helped to trigger the Great War, whether the war was... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $29.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Undertones of War (07 Edition) by Edmund Blunden Publisher Comments “I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To the Line of Fire!: Mexican Texans and World War I (C. A. Brannen) by Jose A. Ramirez Publisher Comments Winner of the 2009 Robert A. Calvert Prize In January 1917, German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann sent a telegram to Germany's Mexican ambassador, authorizing the offer of U.S. territory in exchange for Mexico's alliance with Germany in the Great War.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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In the Company of Generals: The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole by Robert H. (edt) Ferrell Publisher Comments Pierpont Stackpole was a Boston lawyer who in January 1918 became aide to Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, soon to be commander of the first American corps in France. Stackpole's diary, published here for the first time, is a major eyewitness account... (read more) Your price: $42.25 New - Hardcover
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A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front by Winston Groom Publisher Comments A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought -- and thought... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps by James Mccudden Publisher Comments The day-to-day insights of a brilliantly daring World War I ace that only ends with his death at the age of 23 . . . James McCudden was an outstanding British fighter ace of World War I, whose daring exploits earned him a tremendous reputation and... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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